Recent Articles Relating to Law Practice Management

 

The first three links are to 3 articles in order about the disruptions occurring in law practice being driven by technology and clients. The articles are by Jordan Furlong and the 4th link is to his bio.

 

http://www.law21.ca/2011/08/17/here-come-the-disruptors/

http://www.law21.ca/2011/08/19/the-rise-of-the-super-boutique/

http://www.law21.ca/2011/08/26/goodbye-to-all-that/

http://www.law21.ca/about-2/

The next link is to a slide presentation on a perspective of legal education in the 21st century.

http://computationallegalstudies.com/2011/10/13/the-mit-school-of-law-a-perspective-on-legal-education-in-the-21st-century-presentation-slides-version-1-01/

The next link is to a 5 part article on the "robot invasion" (essentially intelligent agents) on jobs. Click on the icons at the top of the article for each separate part.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011/09/will_robots_steal_your_job.html

The next two links are to an article about a prediction by Richard Susskind and a debate between Susskind and Swedish lawyers in a conference.

http://www.legalfutures.co.uk/legal-services-act/alternative-business-structures/susskind-five-years-until-legal-market-faces-endgame

http://www.theorangerag.com/blog/_archives/2011/10/11/4917503.html

Susskind's website is at: http://www.susskind.com/

Finally a bonus link for fun.

Look at the video at the link below. Think of this technology applied to transportation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ws6AAhTw7RA

All of these are interesting because they provide different perspectives on the impact of technology, which continues to increase exponentially. Something to think about is the following.

The current price performance ratio of computing technology today compared to what was available in 1971 (year of the first integrated circuit) is about 134,000,000 times.

Moore's law predicting that price performance doubles about every 18 months still holds true. So, the ratios for the next few years are likely to be.

These links were provided by James Cook of the State Bar of New Mexico's Law Practice Management Committee.  If you have additional questions about any of this content, he can be reached via his e-mail, cookj@jacksonlewis.com.

 

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